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Sep 21, 2012
09/12
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John Tocher
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This one features the voices of Bing Satellites and Kirill Platonkin . A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Ethical Religion (1922) start artist title 00:00 John Tocher [LIVE] Grove of Whispers
Topics: drone, spoken word, experimental, podcast, john tocher
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640
May 31, 2012
05/12
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John Tocher
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This work is dedicated to the memory of ambient artist Lucette Bourdin . "The track title 'Hardanger' comes from hardanger fiddle music I ran across. I was listening to a rip I had of Alien Air Music , and just at the end of the previous show they had an off-beat classical music spotlight where they played this hardanger fiddle track done with troll tuning. Quite haunting. I was so taken with the track I edited it out and made a stand alone track of it -- I have since bought the cd . I...
Topics: ambient, soundscape, drone, ambient drone, long-form, John Tocher
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Apr 6, 2014
04/14
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The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time . What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred. - Frank Herbert, Dune (1965) start artist title 00:00 Palancar February 2, 2008 Part 1 (The Omicron Transmission) 22:00 Palancar January 6, 2008 (City Abandoned to Electric...
Topics: dark ambient, experimental, drone, podcast, john tocher, palancar, sadayatana
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Oct 27, 2012
10/12
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Grove of Whispers
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Growl is an excerpt from the Grove of Whispers show of September 4, 2012. Performed live on Stillstream using midi controller, hackintosh and the buddhalizer virtual machine. Vocal samples chopped and screwed from old time radio shows. Grove of Whispers is John Tocher. John does the Sadayatana podcast and plays live several nights a week on Stillstream . He also releases dark and experimental music at Buddhist on Fire .
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Topics: Grove of Whispers, John Tocher, dark ambient, drone, experimental, live
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598
Jan 2, 2013
01/13
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Grove of Whispers
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This "Rain" by Grove of Whispers joins "Ame" and "Hujan" to complete the trilogy of soothing long-form works. About the album: "Performed on stillstream.com December 28, 2012. Done live using midi controller, hackintosh, Linux and personal field recordings. Music fashioned using the buddhalizer --a virtual extension of my imagination. Grove of Whispers is John Tocher. John does the Sadayatana podcast and plays live several nights a week on Stillstream . He...
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Topics: field recordings, meditative, experimental, Rain, Grove of Whispers, John Tocher
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Nov 3, 2012
11/12
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Grove of Whispers
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For our Rain series, a sci-fi inspired ambient opus, recorded as a live radio session by Grove of Whispers. About the album: Inspired by scenes in the Bradbury Building from the movie Blade Runner. Performed on stillstream.com October 24, 2012. Done live using midi controller, hackintosh and personal field recordings. Music fashioned using the buddhalizer --a virtual extension of my imagination. Grove of Whispers is John Tocher. John does the Sadayatana podcast and plays live several nights a...
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Topics: dark ambient, meditative, experimental, Rain, Grove of Whispers, John Tocher
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692
Feb 6, 2013
02/13
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John Tocher
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Grove of Whispers returns with an unsettling dark dronescape, recorded as a live radio session. About the album: Performed on stillstream.com January 31, 2013. Done live using midi controller, Linux and personal field recordings. Music fashioned using the buddhalizer -- a virtual extension of my imagination. Grove of Whispers is John Tocher. John does the Sadayatana podcast and plays live several nights a week on Stillstream . He also releases dark and experimental music at Buddhist on Fire ....
Topics: dark ambient, drone, experimental, Grove of Whispers, John Tocher
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Jul 12, 2013
07/13
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John Tocher
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"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it." --Woodrow Wilson About the album: Against The Stream was performed live on stillstream.com June 19, 2013. Done using midi controller, Linux and personal field recordings. Music fashioned using the buddhalizer --a virtual extension of the imagination. Cover adapted from an image by Nagesh Kamath . Grove of Whispers is John Tocher. John does the Sadayatana podcast and plays live several nights a week on Stillstream....
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Topics: dark ambient, drone, experimental, Grove of Whispers, John Tocher
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Sep 16, 2012
09/12
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John Tocher
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We have numerous, extremely naïve assumptions built into our thinking, and our most venerable explanatory engines , such as science, happen also to be our oldest explanatory engines, and therefore they have built into them the most naïve and unexamined assumptions. - Terence McKenna, Psychedelic Society (1984) A show where I remix only my own music... It starts with a live remix of the horror film " Carnival of Souls ", but since that and " Island of Lost Souls " are a...
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Topics: dark ambient, experimental, noise, podcast, grove of whispers, john tocher
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Oct 27, 2012
10/12
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Grove of Whispers
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A dark and surrounding moodscape, recorded as a live radio session by Grove of Whispers. About the album: Swirl was performed on stillstream.com October 19, 2012. Done live using midi controller and hackintosh. Music fashioned using the buddhalizer. A virtual extension of my imagination. Grove of Whispers is John Tocher. John does the Sadayatana podcast and plays live several nights a week on Stillstream . He also releases dark and experimental music at Buddhist on Fire . Cover adapted from a...
Topics: dark ambient, noise, experimental, Grove of Whispers, John Tocher
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782
Nov 18, 2012
11/12
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Grove of Whispers
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Field recordings and processed ambient sounds carry you to a distant land in this "Rain" related album, mixed live for the Grove of Whispers radio program. About the album: Performed on stillstream.com October 14, 2012. Done live using midi controller, hackintosh and personal field recordings. Music fashioned using the buddhalizer --a virtual extension of my imagination. Several samples from the Indonesian Sound Archive were used. Thank you Derek Bacon for your excellent recordings....
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Topics: field recordings, meditative, experimental, Rain, Grove of Whispers, John Tocher
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Sep 2, 2012
09/12
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John Tocher
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The last two hours is just me playing live. Some of the new Rain release from webbed hand is heard too. Somnaphon: Rain 1 . Love those rain releases . Also, some of an album I am working on gets played. Making music is fun. I hope you like it as much as I do. A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.' - Yasunari Kawabata, House of the Sleeping Beauties (1961) start...
Topics: dark ambient, soundscapes, experimental, podcast, john tocher, my day is gone, somnaphon, the ink...
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Mar 30, 2014
03/14
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John Tocher
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We humans, on coming into the world, find we have one sorry privilege--the privilege of feeling ourselves live, with all the fine illusions that follow as a consequence, the illusion, in particular, that this inner experience we have of a life forever varied and changing--changing according to time, circumstance, or fortuity--is a reality outside ourselves. - Luigi Pirandello, The Late Mattia Pascal (1923) start artist title 00:00 Wings of an Angel Purity Sacrifice (unreleased) 22:00 Shane...
Topics: drone, dark ambient, experimental, podcast, shane morris, john tocher, wings of an angel
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575
Nov 16, 2013
11/13
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John Tocher
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Grove of Whisper's Halloween 2013 set performed live on netradio at Stillstream.com. About the album: Sin Eater was performed live on stillstream.com Halloween night October 31, 2013. Done using midi controller, Linux and personal field recordings. Music fashioned using the buddhalizer --a virtual extension of my imagination. Some folks had hoped for a creepy Halloween flavored set and I suppose some of my music is that way. Thinking about it I realized I don't really do 'on demand' creepy or...
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Topics: ambient, dark ambient, drone, field recordings, Grove of Whispers, John Tocher
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Jun 24, 2014
06/14
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John Tocher
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Blue Harvest was a live set performed in 2013 by Grove of Whispers, with contributions from Scott Lawlor. About the album: "Blue Harvest was performed live on stillstream.com August 11 and 13, 2013. Done using midi controller, Linux and personal field recordings. Music fashioned using the buddhalizer --a virtual extension of the imagination. Some drones were provided by Scott Lawlor , the host of "The Blind Flight", an ambient music podcast heard on stillstream.com each Friday...
Topics: ambient, dark ambient, drone, soundscape, field recordings, Grove of Whispers, John Tocher, Scott...
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Jun 2, 2014
06/14
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John Tocher
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Grove of Whisper's richly textured drones reworked into minute-long pieces to play in order or shuffled. About the album: One Minute Drone came out the idea of trying things that other people don't. I had seen someone asking about making drone music and people saying something like "well the first thing you got to understand about drone music is they are going to be long." I thought when I seen that "aha, there's an assumption everyone makes, I'll see what happens when I do the...
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Topics: ambient, dark ambient, drone, field recordings, Grove of Whispers, John Tocher
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Sep 20, 2013
09/13
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Grove Of Whispers
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45 ECHOES SOUNDS PRESENT NEW AMBIENT RELEASE Catalog: 45E022-2013 Release date: September 2013 ========================================= Artist: Grove Of Whispers Album: The Garden ========================================= RELEASE PAGE Release Details: Label: 45 Echoes Sounds Catalog: 45E022-2013 Country Of Artist: USA Style: Ambient, Dark Ambient, Field recordings, Long Form Total time: 59:02 Format: Lossless (FLAC); MP3 320 kbps, VBR MP3 Release date: September 2013 Tracks: 1 Music by Jhon...
Topics: 45 Echoes Sounds, Grove Of Whispers, John Tocher, Ambient, Dark Ambient, Field Recordings,...
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Nov 1, 2015
11/15
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John Tocher
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There are experiences that most of us are hesitant to speak about, because they do not conform to everyday reality and defy rational explanation. These are not particular external occurrences, but rather events of our inner lives, which are generally dismissed as figments of the imagination and barred from our memory. Suddenly, the familiar view of our surroundings is transformed in a strange, delightful, or alarming way: it appears to us in a new light, takes on a special meaning. Such an...
Topics: dark ambient, experimental, ambient, podcast, astral & shit, hsin-jung tsai, john tocher,...
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Jan 16, 2015
01/15
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The original is unfaithful to the translation. - Jorge Luis Borges start artist title 00:00 Grove Of Whispers (featuring pixyblink ) Carmilla 21:49 Wings Of An Angel Your Dominatrix Had A Brain Transplant Under My Knives 94:13 Grove of Whispers Live
Topics: dark ambient, experimental, drone, podcast, sadayatana, grove of whispers featuring pixyblink, john...
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Sep 28, 2012
09/12
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John Tocher
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Okay, let's try to hook up and do a Birch Transmogrifier on the show. - Inventor start artist title 00:35 Mr. Moods & DJ Racy A.J Desert 06:21 Frenic Eternal Plains 08:45 IoNiZeR Bound By Gravity 15:26 Frenic The Tumen Horsemen 19:19 Violent Public Disorderaz Explicit Thanks (feat. Mr. Moods) 20:16 IoNiZeR 4th Dimension 26:39 Impuls Passed The Right Port 32:43 Basement Skylights Vo0do0 33:37 Mr. Moods Istanbul 39:03 DJ Racy A.J Stones (Mr. Moods - Polish Stones Mix) 44:47 Mr. Moods Illusion...
Topics: hip-hop, downtempo, lounge, podcast, anitek, basement skylights, dj racy a.j, frenic, gumball...
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Oct 21, 2012
10/12
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John Tocher
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I remembered a phrase, 'the ephemeral city ,' that I had come across in a book at school. Yes, ephemeral was the right word, I decided: before anyone realized it--even the people living there--the streets would have changed into something different. Today's streets were not tomorrow's, nor were tomorrow's those of the day after.... - Yukio Mishima, Cigarette (1946) start artist title 00:00 Grove Of Whispers Nixon: I am not a crook 06:14 M27 Moon 06:40 M27 The Dumbell Nebula 17:48 M27 Alberio...
Topics: dark ambient, experimental, noise, podcast, charles premier, david b. dana, grove of whispers, john...
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Mar 1, 2015
03/15
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And again, the dark street. The dark, dark street. The women out shopping for the evening meal of course, and baby carriage and the silver bicycle were already painted out by the darkness; most of the commuters too were already in place in their filing-drawer houses. A half-forsaken chasm of time.... - Kōbō Abe, The Ruined Map start artist title 00:00 Atilio Doreste Respiro 01:18 Kirill Platonkin In The Dream Fields 08:37 Kirill Platonkin Stellar Breath 14:06 Esa Ruoho Preparazione 19:18...
Topics: dark ambient, drone, experimental, podcast, atilio doreste, depletion region, esa ruoho, john...
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Oct 14, 2012
10/12
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John Tocher
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At the center of religion is love. I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world . I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love. - Ray Bradbury, as quoted in "Sci-fi legend "Ray Bradbury on God, 'monsters and angels'" by John Blake, CNN : Living (2010) start artist title 00:00 encephala The Magic Lantern 04:35 Janes scenic drive in the country of her eyes 05:11 Dronny Darko Asperatus (Remixed by Antropik)...
Topics: dark ambient, experimental, noise, podcast, dronny darko, elizabeth veldon, encephala, half...
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Dec 2, 2012
12/12
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John Tocher
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I wasn't too much in the mood to play other people's music tonight so I just played live as grove of whispers. For a bit there my midi controller was totally out of control. It still sounded good though. I gave it a good talking to. These people were worthy of love and admiration in their blind loyalty, in their blind strength and tenacity. With the exception of one small thing , one tiny little thing, they lacked nothing that the sage and thinker had, and that was the consciousness of the...
Topics: dark ambient, drone, experimental, podcast, dugald mcneill, grove of whispers, jack hertz, john...
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Feb 17, 2013
02/13
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John Tocher
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In the course of writing this book, I’ve given a lot of serious thought to the Big Question : what does it mean to be alive? If I were in Shizuko’s place, would I have the willpower to live as fully as she? Would I have the courage, or the persistence and determination? Could I hold someone’s hand with such warmth and strength? Would the love of others save me? I don’t know. To be honest, I’m not so sure. - Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche...
Topics: dark ambient, drone, experimental, podcast, arvid asplund, a short term effect, john ov3rblast,...
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Jun 24, 2012
06/12
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John Tocher
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture , than good culture without the disposition. - Leonardo da Vinci, Notebook 19 start artist title 00:00 Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Man and His Culture (1954) 01:47 Mystified Dead Souls 04:34 Another Neglected Hobby Beeswax and Rust 29:18...
Topics: drone, dark ambient, soundscape, podcast, 6138, adamennon | beta, another neglected hobby,...
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Jan 16, 2015
01/15
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The more I look at most of the art movements, it’s all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians. - Alan Moore, De Abaitua interview (1998) start artist title 00:00 sorrow stream No hope 03:56 Scott Lawlor & Oystein Jorgensen The Next Dimension 10:18 Neon Lotus V 27:04 Mikael Hirsz Self Medication 65:22 天 島 101:03 Astral & Shit snow 104:02 Grove of Whispers LIVE
Topics: dark ambient, experimental, noise, podcast, sadayatana, astral & shit, john tocher, mikael...
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477
Mar 7, 2012
03/12
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Luís Antero
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A tribute to Sadayatana from field recording guru Luís Antero. Thank you Luís. Luís Antero - field recordings, electronics and electric guitar Recorded in january 2012, in Oliveira do Hospital, Portugal This soundwork is a tribute to Sadayatana , a radio show curated by John Tocher www.luisantero.yolasite.com
Topics: buddhist on fire, sadayatana, luis antero, luís antero, portugal, john tocher, field recordings,...
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Jun 8, 2012
06/12
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John Tocher
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YoDawg is the creator of many unreachable dreams. - Dougster start artist title 00:00 The Kirbi Game Over 03:34 The S.K. Exchanged 08:39 Vernon Lenoir Zwiebelkuchen 08:50 Professor Kliq All Control 12:18 Ctrl+J Cycle Drugs 23 (Total Nuclear Disaster Remix) 17:38 Normaa Normaagedon 23:13 Luis Antero O Colecionador de Sons Emissao #52 24:12 DJ Racy A.J Stones (Mr. Moods Polish Stones Remix) 29:53 L'eaves Tangerine (Mr. Moods Old Techniques Mix) 34:05 Humeka Moolid the Lobster (Choenyi Azurophilic...
Topics: dubstep, downtempo, electronic, podcast, billie holiday, clouds in my home, ctrl+j, daidalosone, dj...
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Jul 28, 2013
07/13
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John Tocher
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There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land. - Katherine Dunn, Geek Love (1989) start artist title 00:00 METEK & Josef Nadek Friendly Fire Part 1 Collateral Murder Remix 04:24 Justin Robert secret museum 13:55 R. Lobster Dying Inside The Whale 35:39 Pollux Dishonor 46:51 Anonymous Tape01 52:48 Stephen Briggs It's begun 67:12 Scott...
Topics: dark ambient, noise, e, podcast, aairria, alan morse davies, anonymous, john tocher, jorge marredo...
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Mar 3, 2013
03/13
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John Tocher
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I think the key image of the 20th century is the man in the motor car. It sums up everything: the elements of speed, drama, aggression, the junction of advertising and consumer goods with the technological landscape. The sense of violence and desire, power and energy; the shared experience of moving together through an elaborately signalled landscape. We spend a substantial part of our lives in the motor car, and the experience of driving condenses many of the experiences of being a human...
Topics: dark ambient, experimental, noise, podcast, aw backhouse, cory allen, grove of whispers, john...
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Aug 19, 2012
08/12
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John Tocher
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...among aviaries of magic transcendent birds recognizing my awakening mind with sweet weird cries (the pathless lark), in the ethereal perfume, mysteriously ancient, the bliss of the Buddha-fields, I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted... - Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (1958) start artist title 00:00 Public Domain A Hole Concept 01:14 John Tocher Cinema of Porcelain Fur 11:00 The Unnameable This No Human Creature May Do 15:13 Abominations of Yondo...
Topics: dark ambient, drone, experimental, podcast, 01, abominations of yondo, dan minoza, eko_fisk, erik...
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Jun 1, 2012
06/12
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John Tocher
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Better than being mad as a sack of ferrets. - EdisonRex start artist title 00:00 Digital Nottich Strong Enough (Intro) 01:28 Kid Panda The Return 04:31 Matt Builds Character 1. Intro 04:54 FedericoFedex Bloody mindset 08:17 Rowboat Magicians The Hidden Places (remix) 14:13 Kodek Phatty Grandma Smokin Rubber 18:15 Wobble One on TypeKonnectionNetlabel Electrostep 24:04 Romo Good Night 25:37 Red|-_-|box Crispy Fried Brain In Teriyaki Sauce 29:39 Michael Carrier 03-N3tw0rk 33:24 Jenova 7 & Mr....
Topics: dubstep, hip-hop, downtempo, podcast, digital nottich, eftos, enrico caruso, evo evolver,...
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Nov 4, 2012
11/12
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John Tocher
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Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: The Mark Inside . - William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch (1959) start artist title 00:00 Mister Vapor Constant Revisited 15:05 Sons Of Dagon The Whisperer In The Darkness 21:16 Subterrestrial Transmission 14 31:34 Dr. Else Hauf Houston 38:21 mhz_ winter potatum 41:47 TTAATTOO & Oystein Jorgensen Waterworld 49:26 Stonemaker Slow Death 61:11 Sons Of Dagon The Rats In The Walls 68:11 Stonemaker Sage Smoke 80:32 Dr. Else Hauf Lurch 87:28...
Topics: drone, dark ambient, noise, podcast, dr. else hauf, erik satie & peter j, grove of whispers,...
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Dec 30, 2012
12/12
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John Tocher
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God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night . - Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957) start artist title 00:00 deafness Wuornos 01:31 Grove of Whispers Vulture: Carrion Forest (live remix) 43:28 Mystified External Pulse 55:31 Harmony & Decay Rapid Eye Movement 64:13 Demagolka Bloodfen 78:59 Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt Assembled without manipulation 86:47 BAUMANN.electronics Overwhelming Gravitational Attraction of Coma Cluster...
Topics: dark ambient, drone, noise, podcast, backyard ghost, baumann.electronics, clyde mccoy, deafness,...
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Apr 8, 2012
04/12
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John Tocher
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Tonight's show was mostly a mix of music released last week by Edu Comelles in his guise as Mensa and a various field recordings by... me. I really like the music of Edu Comelles and his label audiotalia.net . I think you will too. New from Impulsive Habitat : David Velez's " Forma y percepción ". A few more tracks from the new release at otium.ru Seetyca & Etheocles Stevens: " Sulphur VI ". Also new from Webbed Hand Records , tracks from the new Ice Guild Kaiser "...
Topics: drone, dark ambient, soundscapes, podcast, alozeau & edu comelles, chris whitehead, david...
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Oct 28, 2012
10/12
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John Tocher
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The only experience of time that one can have is of a subjective time that is created by one's own mental processes, but in relationship to the Newtonian universe there is no time whatsoever. One exists in eternity, one has become eternal, the universe is aging at a staggering rate all around one in this situation, but that is perceived as a fact of this universe — the way we perceive Newtonian physics as a fact of this universe. One has transited into the eternal mode. One is then apart from...
Topics: dark ambient, drone, noise, podcast, ajna, anastasia vronski, covolux, dugald mcneill, elizabeth...
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Jun 10, 2012
06/12
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John Tocher
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There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream , we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of...
Topics: dark ambient, experimental, soundscapes, podcast, aairria, billie holiday, charles premier &...
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Feb 10, 2013
02/13
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John Tocher
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In a corner of the concourse, by the main entrance, there was a small newsstand. The owner, a quiet, courteous old man with an air of breeding, had stood behind his counter for twenty years. He had owned a cigarette factory once, but it had gone bankrupt, and he had resigned himself to the lonely obscurity of his little stand in the midst of an eternal whirlpool of strangers . He had no family or friends left alive. - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957) start artist title 00:00 Ice Guild Kaiser...
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Topics: dark ambient, drone, experimental, podcast, alphaxone, ars sonor, djinnestan, grove of whispers,...
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Dec 16, 2012
12/12
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John Tocher
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So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be...
Topics: dark ambient, noise, experimental, podcast, darius ciuta, bruno duplant, dmgm & the inversion,...
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Apr 21, 2013
04/13
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John Tocher
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams . - Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Ode (1874) start artist title 00:00 John Tocher Estranged, Disused And Hazardous (unreleased) 10:59 John Tocher Whisper of Latex 20:28 Travis Johnson Valsa (Remix) 37:17 Grove of Whispers Live 2013-04-18 53:06 Jack Hertz Wonderland: The Caterpillar 63:58 Gastón Arévalo Marea (live) 75:09 Jack Hertz Cheshire Girls 85:01 Graham Dunning British Steam 89:46 Graham Dunning The Bulging, Rust-Eaten Plates That Kept...
Topics: dark ambient, drone, noise, podcast, alan morse davies, backyard ghost, gastón arévalo, graham...
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Oct 7, 2012
10/12
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John Tocher
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Why should this propensity to seek beauty in darkness be so strong only in Orientals? The West too has known a time when there was no electricity, gas, or petroleum, yet so far as I know the West has never been disposed to delight in shadows . Japanese ghosts have traditionally no feet; Western ghosts have feet, but are transparent. As even this trifle suggests, pitch darkness has always occupied our fantasies, while in the West even ghosts are clear as glass. This is true too of our household...
Topics: dark ambient, space drone, experimental, podcast, adolf hitler, another neglected hobby, bird...
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Feb 9, 2014
02/14
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy. - W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge (1943) start artist title 00:00 Mary E. Byrne and Eleanor H. Hull Be Thou My Vision 01:17 Lucette Bourdin Inner Vastness 09:55 Lucette Bourdin and Darrell Burgan Sanatana...
Topics: ambient, drone, dark ambient, podcast, grove of whispers, grove of whispers (featuring jeff...
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Oct 5, 2012
10/12
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John Tocher
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Pussy Galore: My name is Pussy Galore. James Bond: I must be dreaming. - James Fucking Bond I had the track announcer set to left again rather than crossfader. This means the tracklisting is incomplete. Sorry. Nice sounding show but don't count on being able to figure out what I played and where to find it. Gah! start artist title 00:00 Keramik Defy 04:09 pixyblink Meat Pinata Phone Message 06:16 Rec_Overflow Anisette 14:15 Leenox The Turntablist & Mr. Moods Death Track (Prototype 68 Burn...
Topics: downtempo, hip-hop, trip-hop, podcast, afion, backyard ghost, c_c, defiant kinetics, hobotek, john...
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Sep 9, 2012
09/12
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John Tocher
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. - Yoko Ono start artist title 00:00 Hermann Hesse Siddhartha (chopped and screwed) 01:48 Jeff Sampson and Mystified Convergence at the mouth 11:57 Consciousness Prism, M.Nomized & William Spivey The Big Sleep 20:40 Adolf Hitler Some Hitler Speech (chopped and screwed) 21:01 The Development of Shape 1.2 (nojoined remix) 28:40 Dallas Simpson The Ferroenquinologist's Dream 32:29 Acclimate V.1 Always These...
Topics: dark ambient, experimental, noise, podcast, acclimate v.1, adolf hitler, another neglected hobby,...
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Mar 24, 2013
03/13
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John Tocher
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It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he felt himself to be a squat, oily, sweating, uneducated nurt whose stomach rattled and whose breath wheezed. Near her he became aware of the physical mechanisms which kept him alive; within him machinery, pipes and valves and gas-compressors and fan belts had to chug away at a losing task, a labor ultimately doomed. Seeing her face, he discovered that his own...
Topics: dark ambient, drone, experimental, podcast, adelina patti, ajna & dronny darko, ars sonor,...
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May 13, 2012
05/12
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John Tocher
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A mix of field recordings from my porch and in front of my house, rain and cicadas and drones. Some experimental music, some noise. Was a strange show. I had to go where the sound led me. Thank you to Mystified for creating his " Polka Drones ". I had challenged him as kind of a dare over Jack Hertz kidding me about the 78s I play at the end of my show (as if polka music could be a bad thing.) Mystified pulled through admirably. I knew he would... A track from the new The Implicit...
Topics: drone, experimental, dark ambient, podcast, 00x, aairria, abominations of yondo, alphaxone,...
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Jun 17, 2012
06/12
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John Tocher
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I believe that the truth of the matter is far more terrifying, that the real truth that dare not speak itself is that no one is in control, absolutely no one. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. There may be entities seeking control, but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself. It's like trying to control a dream . - Terence McKenna, Dreaming Awake at the End of Time (1998) start artist title 00:00 Ombient Live on Sadayatana 59:19 Bing Satellites...
Topics: dark ambient, noise, industrial, podcast, (0)+hers, 8m2stereo, anton mobin & luis antero,...
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Sep 30, 2012
09/12
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John Tocher
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A light here required a shadow there . - Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927) start artist title 00:00 John Tocher Wedding Chat (remixed field recording) 01:39 Tribe Of Astronauts At The Edge Of The Forest 33:12 Artificial Memory Trace Diluvio (extract) 37:40 Nux Vomica The Artifacts of Visitacion (a suite) 56:03 Ars Sonor & The Implicit Order Level 03: Desolation 59:26 Ars Sonor & The Implicit Order Level 04: Revelation 66:03 David Michael El Yunque 81:06 Atilio Doreste The Sound...
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Topics: dark ambient, experimental, noise, podcast, alex charles, a.n.k.h //, anton mobin, ars sonor &...
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Nov 10, 2013
11/13
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John Tocher
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We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that trees are travelers, in the ordinary sense. They make many journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true; but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings -- many of them not so much. - John Muir, The Mountains of California (1894) start artist title 00:00 Pollux Mist 00:14 Klopenn Panspermia 07:04 Flat Affect Silhouetted Figures 15:40...
Topics: dark ambient, drone, experimental, podcast, art abscons, caul, damian valles, deafness, dugald...
